Position: Defender/Midfielder
Age: 23
Games: 69
It’s a homecoming of sorts for Queenslander Jarrod Harbrow, the Gold Coast SUNS fifth uncontracted player signing.
Raised in the state’s far north where he cut his teeth in the Cairns junior competition, in 2011 the former Western Bulldog will be a welcome addition to his new club’s defensive and midfield stocks.
He was taken by the Dogs with Pick 27 in the 2007 Rookie Draft and made his AFL debut in the same year. A speedy, agile and creative ball-user, Harbrow struggled for consistent form early on but managed to repay his club’s faith during the Bulldogs’ so-near-yet-so-far 2009 AFL Premiership campaign, one that ended just a few points short of a Grand Final berth after a heartbreaking loss to St Kilda in the First Preliminary Final.
He played 23 games in 2009 and averaged 21 touches in each. Used mostly as a dashing defender, he finished sixth in the Dogs’ 2009 Best and Fairest. This season has seen Harbrow build on his consistently good form.
He racked up twenty possession-plus games on thirteen occasions, and his more prolific games proved something of a barometer of his team’s on-field success.
